Date | Event |
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866 |
Pope Nicholas I answers the envoys of Boris (Ad consulta vestra) |
1002 |
English king Ethelred II (the 'Unready') launches 'St Brice's Day' massacre of Danish settlers |
1553 |
English Lady Jane Grey and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer accused of high treason |
1565 |
King Philip II's "Letters out Segovia" reaches Brussels |
1565 |
Pope Pius IV publishes degree Professi fidei |
1642 |
Battle at Turnham Green outside London: King Charles I vs English parliament |
1673 |
Prince Willem III/Raimundo earl Montecuccoli conquer Bonn |
1715 |
Battle of Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive but Government forces halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish Earl of Mar |
1775 |
American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal |
1781 |
British troops occupy Negapatam, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
1789 |
Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes" |
1839 |
1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY |
1841 |
James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis. |
1843 |
Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts |
1849 |
Peter Burnett elected first governor of California |
1851 |
1st meeting of anti-revolutionary "Netherlands & Orange" |
1851 |
Telegraph connection between London-Paris linked |
1851 |
The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, the first settlers of what would become Seattle, Washington. |
1854 |
"New Era" sinks off NJ coast with loss of 300 |
1862 |
Battle of Holly Spring, MS |
1864 |
The new Constitution of Greece is adopted. |
1865 |
PT Barnum's New American museum opens in Bridgeport |
1865 |
US issues 1st gold certificates |
1868 |
American Philological Association organized in NY |
1875 |
Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms |
1875 |
National Bowling Association organized in NYC |
1885 |
Serbian army occupies Bulgaria |
1887 |
Bloody Sunday clashes in central London. |
1895 |
First shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii |
1900 |
Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League |
1901 |
The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster. |
1906 |
C W Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland |
1907 |
French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter (twin rotor) |
1907 |
The Conference of Central American States, convoked in response to the war between Honduras and Nicaragua, meets in Washington DC to promote unification |
1909 |
259 miners die in a fire at St Paul Mine at Cherry, Illinois |
1909 |
Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
1909 |
Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields. |
1913 |
1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob |
1916 |
British offensive at Ancre, Belgium |
1916 |
Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription. |
1918 |
Prince Friedrich, last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, abdicates |
1918 |
Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
1918 |
Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg |
1920 |
Hudson River frozen at Albany |
1921 |
"Sheik", a silent film starring Rudolph Valentino, is released |
1921 |
US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty |
1922 |
Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY |
1922 |
George Cohan's musical "Little Nellie Kelly" premieres in NYC |
1922 |
Marc Connelly/George Kaufman's "'49ers" premieres in NYC |
1926 |
Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam West Java |
1927 |
NY-NJ Holland Tunnel, 1st twin-tube underwater auto tunnel, opens |
1928 |
Bradman scores 132* for NSW against MCC |
1930 |
WA Drake's "Grand Hotel" premieres in NYC |
1931 |
Hattie Caraway (D-AK) appointed first US woman senator |
1933 |
1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, Minn |
1935 |
Anti-British riots in Egypt |
1937 |
NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio |
1938 |
America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified |
1940 |
Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released |
1941 |
German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic |
1942 |
Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal |
1942 |
Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 |
1945 |
Australian Services draw 1st Victory Test against India |
1946 |
First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA |
1946 |
Bradman scores 106 for an Australian XI v the MCC |
1948 |
"As the Girls Go" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 perfs |
1950 |
US win 1st world championship bridge contest |
1950 |
General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas. |
1951 |
Lefty O'Doul's all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio & Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan) |
1952 |
False fingernails 1st sold |
1952 |
KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1953 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 4th String Quartet premieres |
1955 |
1st live telecast from non-contiguous foreign country-Havana Cuba |
1955 |
Argentine general Pedro Aramburu succeeds E Lonardi as president |
1956 |
US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional |
1958 |
NYC Mayor Robert Wagner announces plans to begin a new baseball called the Continental League |
1960 |
Fire in movie theater kills 152 children (Amude, Spain) |
1961 |
WCBB TV channel 10 in Augusta, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB. |
1964 |
Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points |
1964 |
Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor |
1965 |
"Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances |
1965 |
"Yarmouth Castle" burns & sinks off Bahamas, killing 89 |
1965 |
Director Kenneth Tynan says the word "Fuck" on BBC |
1966 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open |
1967 |
Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland Oh) |
1967 |
NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle & Kansas City |
1968 |
Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP |
1968 |
William Craig, Home Affairs Minister, bans all marches, with the exception of 'customary' parades, in Derry, Northern Ireland; the exception of 'customary' parades meant that Loyalist institutions could parade but civil rights marches could not |
1969 |
VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias & distortion |
1970 |
Lt Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes PM of Syria following military coup |
1970 |
VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs" |
1971 |
Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet (Mars) |
1973 |
"Gigi" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 103 performances |
1973 |
Oakland A's Reggie Jackson wins AL MVP unanimously |
1974 |
Dodgers Steve Garvey wins NL MVP |
1975 |
"Musical Jubilee" opens at St James Theater NYC for 92 performances |
1977 |
25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot |
1977 |
Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77) |
1977 |
Silvia Bertolaccini wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open |
1978 |
NASA launches HEAO |
1979 |
British newspaper "The Times" resumes publishing after 1 year |
1979 |
Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for US President |
1979 |
Willie Stargell & Keith Hernandez share NL MVP Award NL |
1980 |
US spacecraft Voyager 1 sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn |
1980 |
Gabriella Brum, 18, of West Germany crowned 30th Miss World; she resigns the next day because she wants to marry her 52 year old boyfriend |
1981 |
Ringo Starr releases "Wrack My Brains" |
1982 |
Vietnam War Memorial dedicated in Washington DC |
1982 |
A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada, ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport. |
1983 |
Pat Bradley wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
1984 |
David Levy finds his first comet |
1984 |
Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award |
1985 |
Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award |
1985 |
Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, kills 25,000 |
1986 |
Giselle Jeanne-Marie LaRonde of Trinidad, 23, crowned 36th Miss World |
1986 |
NASA launches space vehicle S-199 |
1986 |
US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran |
1987 |
1st condom commercial on British TV |
1989 |
Paul McCartney releases "Figure of 8" & "Ou Est Le Soleil" |
1990 |
Oakland's Bob Welch wins AL Cy Young Award |
1990 |
In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in the Aramoana Massacre. |
1990 |
Saudis ask US for rights to bid on SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) crude |
1991 |
Bomb attack on Aad Kosto, Dutch social dem party-asst sec of state |
1991 |
Boston Red Sox Roger Clemens wins AL Cy Young Award |
1992 |
Riddick Bowe beats Evander Holyfield in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
1993 |
7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka |
1993 |
Chinese MD82 makes crash landing at Urumqi, 12 killed |
1993 |
Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president |
1994 |
Sweden agrees to join European Union |
1995 |
"GoldenEye", starring Pierce Brosnan as James Bond for the first time, debuts |
1996 |
"Three Sisters" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC |
1996 |
Joel Armengaud discovers 2^1398269 - 1 (35th known Mersenne prime) |
1996 |
Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP |
1997 |
"Lion King" opens at New Amersterdam Theater NYC |
1997 |
Ken Griffey Jr unanimously wins AL MVP |
1997 |
UN pulls out arms inspection teams from Iraq |
2000 |
Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. |
2001 |
Doha Round: The World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in Doha, Qatar. |
2001 |
War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. |
2001 |
Shakira's fifth studio album and first English language album, "Laundry Service", is released |
2001 |
US President Bush orders that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve be filled to capacity over the next few years |
2002 |
The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill. |
2002 |
Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441. |
2002 |
Eminem releases single 'Lose Yourself' from soundtrack of 8 Mile, 1st rap song to win Academy Award Best Original Song |
2007 |
An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six. |
2008 |
Germany's economy, Europe's largest , contracted by 0.5% in the third quarter after GDP fell 0.4% in the second quarter, putting it in recession for the first time in five years |
2008 |
Equity research by Deutsche Bank states that Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines should not experience a recession, despite potential harm to economic growth from falling commodity prices and possible weaker exports |
2009 |
The Netherlands officially exits the recession after experiencing 0.4% growth in the third quarter, but recovery for the Netherlands still remains fragile as the country is highly dependent on exports to maintain the recovery |
2009 |
Germany's growth of 0.7% in the third quarter helps lead the Eurozone out of the recession after providing overall growth of 0.4% in the same period, with the whole European Union growing 0.2%, it is reported today |
2010 |
Australian rock band Powderfinger, perform their last concert at the Brisbane River Stage |
2012 |
3 Syrian tanks enter the demilitarized zone of Golan Heights |
2015 |
7.0 quake strikes off shores of Japan |
2015 |
Wave of violent attacks hits Paris; dozens killed |
2016 |
Bombing at Sufi Shrine in Pakistan Kills Dozens |
2017 |
Powerful earthquake on Iran-Iraq border more than 220 |
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